| Show STI k E 11 S the fl ealing practiced ad by british pleasantry the cure cura for warts is ia to take a larm lare e snail a a ail rub the ilia wart well with it arid and then impale impala the snail on a thorn bodge As the cron cren turo turn wastes away the warts will sure ly disappear in the west of england blood serves the same purpose for roller goiter or went wen the head of a dead child must be rubbed nine nine tims across the lump lamp or still better the hand band of a suicide may be buted in ID the vicinity of Stanfor db rul in in northumberland whooping ping cough is if cured by putting the head of 0 a live trout into the patients mouth and I 1 letting t the trout breathe into the latter batio er or else a hairy caterpillar is is put into it 11 small bag around the childs child a neck deck the lough cough ceases as the insect diw diab another cure for whooping cough is IB offerings of hair in sunderland bun derland the crown of the leadis lead bead is is shaved aud anti the hair hung upon a bush or tree with full faith that as the birds carry way away the hair so will the cough vanish in lincolnshire Lincoln shire a girl eirl suffering baitt from the ague cuts a lock of her hair and binds bindi it around tin an tree praying pin g the latter hitter to shake in sn her stead in where liv living ing coas coals tire are still occasionally buried as a remedy for epilepsy some a of f the hair baigot of the patient is 19 generally lidded added to the ot offering at least one holy well in in ireland that of tubber quan quail requires an offering ol of hair from all christian pilgrims who come hereon here on the last three sundays in m june to worship st bt quan As it a charm a against toothache it is is necessary tu to go thrice around a neighboring tree on the bare knees and then cutoff a look lock of hair bair and tie it to a branch the tree thus fringed with human hair baigot of all colors is is a curious curious it igat and an object of deep veneration ilo re remedy medy for a toothache at tavistock in in devonshire is is to bite a tooth fr from 0 m a skull in the churchyard and keep p it a always 1 ways in in the pocket spiders 9 iders are largely conce concerned raed I 1 in I 1 n the curse of the ague in ireland the sufferer is is advised to swallow a living spider in somerset and tile the neighboring bo ring c counties p in ies he is a to shut a largo large b black I 1 ck bolder io idor in a box bos and leave it to perish eve aven n in in new england engla ad a lingering faith in in the of the mother country leads to the manufacture of spider web pills for the cure of ague in devonshire tho the approved treatment for scrofula is ia to dry the bind leg of a toad and wear it round the n neck ock I 1 in a a silk bag or else cut os off that part of the living reptile that answers to the part affected and having wrapped the fragment in parchment to tie it round the sufferers neck in the same county the iba wise mansa mans remedy for rheumatism is to burn a toad to ashes and tie the dust duat in a bit 0 I 1 silk to be worn round the throat toads are 6 male made to do service in divers manners in in cornwall and north 11 ampton for the cure of nose aces bleeding bla eding and quincy while toad powder or eyan even a live toad or a spider shut abut up in a box is still in im some borne places accod accounted as useful a charm against contagion nt as aa it was in the days of sir lien ken elm digby the old smallpox and dropsy remedy known as p ivis was waa nothing more norl nor ie leaa os than powdered toad frogs too are considered remedial frogs splawn placed in a stone stolle jar und and buried for three mouths months till it tarus to water has haa bem considered wonderfully in donegal when well rubbed into a rheumatic limb in Aberdeen shire a care card tor for sore eyes is to lick the ey eyes OB of a live frog fro A man I 1 thus baa healed has thence forth fort lithe the power of curing by licking theral in like manner nei r in in it il is acl eved that hat the tongue that has liekes a lizard till all over will be forever endowed with tile ilia power of healing whatever sore bore or pain it touches in some of the isles notably that of lewis the greatest inith pre vals vali in the efficacy of perforated water worn boria stones called snake stones atones 11 those theae are dipped into waler which ia I 1 then given to cattle as a cura cars for abel swelling I 1 log or for snake bite if the s tone stone is un ablo the finady of the adder dipped in in ilie la water rives gives au equally good re bult a tilt in devonshire any person bitten liy by a viper is is advised 0 a kill the crea wre at once onca and rub tile the wound won lid with its ita fat it is 11 said that this practice has survived in in some por portions eions of the united states abre rathe the 11 flesh ash ot of the rill snake is is accounted the beat cure for re ita own bite black in in his bia folk medicine Mth ciDe states that the belief in in tho ihfe power of snake skin as a into cure for still exists in new england such a is la probably a di 11 heritage Leri taKe from britain in durham an eels skin worn vorn as a or purler arler round the flaked naked log lei is con side bide fd ed a titi ia of crump while lu iu northumberland it is esteemed the lust bandage for a sprained limb century |
